What is up with fortune cookies, Part II

This is a followup to my previous article, What is up with fortune cookies these days? which I wrote after friends and I received some very strange “fortunes” in our fortune cookies.

Well, it’s happened again. Different restaurant. Three of these are just weird. One of those three is just stupid. Then the fourth one is just made of 100% pure awesome, and it was, appropriately, the one in my cookie.

The first weird one...
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What is up with fortune cookies these days?

When I was growing up, I seem to recall that fortune cookies contained things like “you will meet a tall, handsome stranger” or cute little “Confucius say…” type phrases. These days it seems like they’re…um…different?

We ordered Chinese delivered tonight and each of us got a cookie. Here is what our “fortunes” were:

“You have a sincere desire to improve”
This one actually works well with the “-in bed” suffix, so it gets my approval.

“Lucky you....
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Recipe: Gingerbread Men

This is another traditional holiday cookie in my family. It is listed in my mom’s recipes as “Auntie Kit’s Gingerbread Men” but I’ll just call it “Gingerbread Men” since you won’t have the foggiest clue who Auntie Kit is. These are the best gingerbread men I’ve ever had. But I might be biased.

Ingredients:

2/3 cup butter (for best flavor) or margarine

2/3 cup brown sugar

2 tsp. ginger

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. nutmeg

1 1/2 tsp. salt

1 egg

3/4 cup molasses

3...
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Recipe: Mace Christmas Cookies

These cookies are a traditional Christmas treat in my family. It isn’t the holidays without them, in fact. The mace (which is part of the same plant as nutmeg, just as a bit of trivia for you) gives them a very delicate and unique flavor. They are listed in my mom’s recipes as “Mrs. Quimby’s Sugar Cookies”; Mrs. Quimby apparently being someone known to the family before my time. Thank you, Mrs. Quimby, wherever you...
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